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kingoftheu · 8 months

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The Great Bajoran Political Compass Project. Notes in the Notes.

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v-e-l-v-e-t-g-o-l-d-m-i-n-e · 8 months

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#Star Trek #DS9 #Deep Space Nine #star trek polls #star trek deep space nine #star trek ds9 #Star Trek: DS9 #Leeta #Tora Ziyal #Winn Adami #Keiko O'Brien #Molly O'Brien #Kai Opaka #MIla Garak #Kimara Cretak #Ishka #Kasidy Yates

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trekkie-polls · 4 months

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There are so so so so many more, I could really only fit a handful in. If your favorite star trek mystery is missing, please describe it in the tags!

Bonus points for sharing your thoughts on how you would finish the story :)

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geekysteven · 1 month

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#id in alt text #star trek #deep space nine #deep space 9 #star trek ds9 #ds9 #sisko #ben sisko #benjamin sisko #commander sisko #battle lines #kai opaka

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vasquez-rocks · 3 months

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the episode where Kai Opaka gets stranded on the zombie planet

i love the deep space nine episode “battle lines” because its premise is basically that the pope is visiting your office just to like hang out and then while visiting the office the pope sees a car out the window and mentions that they’ve never ridden in a car before and demands you take them on a drive. and then like IMMEDIATELY once you’re on the road some no good teens pull up next to you and are like “hey old man wanna drag?” and you gesture to the pope and say “no thank you, this is the pope’s first time ever in a car” but the pope gently takes your hand and says “you must drag, my child” so with a weary sigh you drag with the teens and the pope just fuckin dies

#ds9 #kira nerys #kai opaka #benjamin sisko #bajor #battle lines #and then it turns out the pope gets resurrected because the planet works on rob zombie dragula rules #kira suffers more than o'brien ngl

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defconprime · 4 months

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Camille Saviola as Kai Opaka

#star trek cards #Kai opaka #Camille Saviola #star trek ds9

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cuterefaction · 7 months

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#Trektober day 6, 'Observation Deck'. Kai Opaka watching a ship approaching the wormhole.

#trek #trektober #trektober2023 #ds9 #deep space nine #bajor #kai opaka #opaka sulan #I should do another pic of Winn in exactly the same position just looking as grumpy and sour as possible

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stopthatbluecat · 4 months

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The Kai and The Emissary

#kai opaka #opaka sulan #benjamin sisko #ds9 #deep space nine #battle lines #Cardassians

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filmjunky-99 · 7 months

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s t a r t r e k d e e p s p a c e n i n e created by rick berman, michael piller [emissary, s1ep1] 'Meeting Kai Opaka'

#star trek #star trek deep space nine #deep space nine #rick berman #Michael Piller #ds9 season 1 #deep space nine season 1 #ds9 emissary #emissary #ds9 emissary part 1 #emissary part 1 #lot: st ds9 season 1 ep 1/20 (ep 1/176)#avery brooks #Camille Saviola #benjamin sisko #kai opaka #Meeting Kai Opaka

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sureshsingaratnam · 9 months

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writergeekrhw · 1 year

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I finished watching DS9 after having not seen it since I was maybe 8 or 9 over a decade ago. Must say, fantastic work. It helped me through a big step in my healing process from a lifetime of trauma. Kira Nerys is so important.

Anyway the real reason for this, did y'all have any plan for Kai Opaka? What's she doin out there on that moon?

A1) Our plan was to replace Kai Opaka with someone who'd be more problematic to Sisko and to kill of someone "important" to raise the impression of stakes for the show.

A2) Practicing law under an assumed name with the help of Golin Shel-la.

#star trek #star trek deep space 9 #deep space 9 #star trek deep space nine #deep space nine #star trek ds9 #ds9 #ask me stuff #ask me anything #Kai Opaka #tvwriting #tv writing #jonathan banks

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cordrazine-official · 11 months

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Take your pick: Sisko/Kira, B'Elanna/Seska, Winn/Opaka

Thank you for these suggestions! I pick “doing all of them”.

Sisko/Kira: I don’t ship it

Why don't you ship it?

It’s the spiritual element that breaks it for me. Captain/First Officer is the classic trek ship but there is the whole Emissary thing that’s missing with the other treks, & I think that, because Kira is religious, Ben wouldn’t let a relationship happen. No-strings-attached sex I don’t think he’d necessarily be opposed to? But given what we see of Kira’s image of him (the way she reacts when he’s injured, or the episode where he “steps down” as Emissary, are good examples imo) I don’t know that Ben would be thrilled with the idea of a relationship.

What would have made you like it?

Ah, this question is really hard. I’m not sure. Again, I totally see Ben Sisko & Kira Nerys hooking up - & that’s interesting, from both POVs! - but for me to be into Siskira it would take a wholly different characterisation/arc for both, & at that point it’s not really Siskira anymore, is it?

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

Yes - I think that together they’d be the kind of power couple you really dread encountering on your travels because they’re just too well-synchronised. See: all the scenes where there’s someone sitting in Sisko’s office & both he & Kira are behind the desk & take turns bullying that person into giving up on whatever it is they were trying to achieve. Those scenes are a treat & I think that, were they to date, they’d be an unstoppable force well-known across the entire quadrant.

B'Elanna/Seska: I ship it

What made you ship it?

I’ll be honest, I don’t remember a whole lot about Seska pre-[everything that happened with the Kazon] but I do think that identity-wise, there’s something really interesting here. B’Elanna struggling to reconcile what she perceives to be different parts of herself (because that’s what she’s been told, & it’s what the crew is still telling her), Seska being one self to everybody else & hiding a whole different self from everybody - there’s something here, something I’d love to see put in contrast. B’Elanna finding something to confide in, someone who understands what she’s saying when she’s talking about the way she conceptualises herself, & Seska can’t tell her anything, & what if that connection somehow derailed her plans?

What are your favorite things about the ship?

I think they’re very similar in a lot of ways & there’s a lot of interesting themes one could explore with them. Identity, difficulties with gathering all parts of yourself into one, having to get used to new circumstances & to a group that sees you as an outsider (& how does B’Elanna feel once she’s confided into a woman who turned out to be an actual outsider; & was she an outsider, in the end? But I digress). Hours-long conversations in Seska’s quarters about their pasts, real or made up, & B’Elanna relaxing around her, B’Elanna trusting her, & at which point does this begin to affect Seska too, despite the real reason she’s here? & then, once the reveal has happened, B’Elanna grapples with what that means - with the fact that she’s told Seska things that were incredibly intimate; & then Seven comes on board & how does her past relationship with Seska influence her new relationship with Seven? This isn’t super related anymore, I’m just spitballing - but there’s a lot of interesting things here.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

I’m not very informed about what the mainstream opinions are about Seska/B’Elanna so I’m not really sure what to say here, sorry!

Winn/Opaka: I ship it

What made you ship it?

Once I became obsessed with Winn it only made sense that she would’ve had a very complicated, very subtextual lesbian affair with Opaka. It’s a very fraught thing & it stopped when Opaka became Kai but Winn is still torn about it & about Opaka, & she still thinks about her all the time. It’s not healthy & it’s not happy but it’s something she needs to hold on to, because she can’t bear to forget about Opaka - & she knows that Bajor remembers Opaka, but not like she does - & she’ll never see the rescue efforts that Bajor organises after the end of the war, which breaks my heart also!

What are your favorite things about the ship?

It’s about faith. It’s about finding connection & love in a context that makes this really difficult; about finding hope, too, in a place where hope is this very fragile, fraught thing, & about staying alive. It’s about admiring each other’s work too, & about academic debate as a love language, & it’s about realising that despite your differences (which are sometimes so great that it’s hard to see how you might bridge them - & sometimes you can’t, & that’s okay!) you can still find comfort & understanding in each other. I like both “they got together” Winn/Opaka & “they never got together” Winn/Opaka, because they both allow me to explore different things; both options are so rich that I don’t think I’ll ever get bored of them.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

I haven’t seen enough opinions about this ship to know what’s popular or not, but I guess shipping Winn with anyone unironically is already unpopular enough.

#kira nerys #ben sisko #b'elanna torres #seska #kai winn #kai opaka

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washed-up-wurmcoil · 2 years

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I literally think about Kai Opaka's "One must never look into the eyes of one's own gods" every single day.

#DS9 #Kai Opaka

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queerlybelovdd · 1 year

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#bajor #bajoran spirituality #bajoran religion #alpha quadrant #cardassian occupation #bajoran resistance #major kira #kai winn #kai opaka #vedek bareil #star trek deep space nine #star trek ds9 #star trek #sci fi #tv shows #game rant #paramount plus

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tuppencetrinkets · 2 years

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Sorted caps from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 1. HERE.

Benjamin Sisko #26,000

Ferengi (Nog, Rom, Quark & the Grand Nagus) #9,800

Garak #161

Jadzia Dax #11,300

Jake Sisko #4,000

Jean Luc Picard #700

Jennifer Sisko #1,000

Julian Bashir #11,600

Kai Opaka #1,500

Kai Winn #900

Keiko O’Brien #1,800

Kira Nerys #19,000

Lwaxan Troi #1,700

Miles O’Brien #14,400

Odo #17,000

Q #1,700

Vash #3,100

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defconprime · 2 months

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Accepting the Past

#star trek cards #star trek ds9 #kira nerys #kai opaka

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